Word: haitianization
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...Haitians should no longer be included among the high-risk groups for AIDS. Researchers now believe that many Haitians who contracted AIDS did so as a result of homosexual activity, use of contaminated intravenous needles or sexual contact with infected prostitutes. Denouncing their misclassification as agents of the disease, Dr. Serge Augustin of the Haitian Coalition on AIDS said, "Three years of stigmatization cannot be erased...
...includes a list of alleged failings and abuses on the part of MINUSTAH, including the claim that the group did not investigate alleged killings of hospitalized patients by members of the Haitian National Police...
...BREAKER XBy Edwidge Danticat One needs a new term to describe Danticat's book: A novel-in-stories? A story-circle? In the first chapter the daughter of Haitian expats living in Brooklyn learns that her father is not, as she thought, a former prison inmate. He was a prison guard and, worse, a torturer and an executioner for the bloody Duvalier regime. The chapters that follow explore the rings of aftermath that spread out from his crimes like terrible ripples; in the final, riveting chapter, we confront the torturer himself at work...
...also knew he would be swimming to raise money to build a medical center, school and orphanage in the Haitian village of Hinche, which he and Judy had visited with their church group...
...said the group dispatched fluent Mandarin speakers to Boston’s Chinatown, sent Portuguese speakers to assist East Cambridge’s Brazilian community and stationed Spanish- and French-speaking volunteers in North Cambridge, home to many Latino and Haitian immigrants...